https://deadline.com/2024/09/james-earl-jones-dead-1236082801/
"James Earl Jones, the revered actor who voiced
Star Wars villain Darth
Vader, starred in
Field of Dreams and many other films and Broadway shows and
is an EGOT winner, died this morning at his home in Dutchess County, NY. He was
93.
His reps at Independent Artist Group confirmed the news to
Deadline.
Widely regarded as among the world’s great stage and screen actors Jones is one
of the few entertainers to have won the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony),
though his Academy Award was Honorary. Jones has received two Primetime Emmy
Awards, a Daytime Emmy, a spoken-word Grammy Award in 1977 and three Tony
Awards.
The actor amassed nearly 200 screen credits during his brilliant 60-year
career, starting [with] some early-’60s TV guest roles and Stanley Kubrick’s
1964 classic
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb (1964). He probably is best known for his voice role as the dastardly
Darth Vader in George Lucas’ original
Star Wars trilogy:
Star Wars (1977)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and
Return of the Jedi (1983). He also
reprised the villainous role in
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
(2005),
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016),
Star Wars: Episode IX – The
Rise of Skywalker (2019) and TV’s
Obi-Wan Kenobi and
Star Wars: Rebels."
Via Steven Vaughan-Nichols.
RIP,
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